On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:59:56PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:

Ralf Baechle [off-list ref] writes:

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On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:28:55PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:

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   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3996071  155804   88992 4240867  40b5e3 vmlinux         ip22 baseline
3985687  159900   88992 4234579  409d53 vmlinux         ip22 + bswap patch
6913157  378552  251024 7542733  7317cd vmlinux         ip27 baseline
6878581  378552  251024 7508157  7290bd vmlinux         ip27 + bswap patch
5773777  268752  187424 6229953  5f0fc1 vmlinux         malta baseline
5773401  268752  187424 6229577  5f0e49 vmlinux         malta + bswap patch

A still unexplained effect of this patch and the reason why I have not
committed this patch is the increase of the data size for the ip22
configuration by 4096 bytes.  There is no change in data size expected.
Also this affects only the test with ip22_defconfig not any of the others
I've tried.

Have you checked which object file(s) the increase comes from?

The data size difference is created in the final link stage.  data for
all inividual .o files even vmlinux.o; only vmlinux differs.

  Ralf